Foundational Weapons For A Modern War
We’ve run a long race and many people feel as if they’ve reached the finish line. They’re celebrating and moving on to other matters. That’s great, but for many of us the recent victory — while astounding — is more like a turning point in a much larger war against formidable strongholds,
I sincerely hope we aren’t faced with another drawn-out farce masquerading as an actual election, although since many of you have already voted that may already be the case. Hopefully those early ballots aren’t currently burning in a drop box, or getting “misplaced” by our lethargic diligent, corrupt exceedingly trustworthy election officials. But if
We’re entering the home stretch of the election season with lies and misdirections coming fast and furious. Your preferred candidates may say all the right things on the stump, but do you know what they’ll do after the election, when those who bankrolled their campaigns come asking for favors? Will they stand
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Nobody knows for sure when the concept of a “just war” was first articulated — just war meaning the moral justification for waging war against one’s enemies, and the acceptable conduct in war once hostilities arise. Modern war makers don’t seem to care much about these rules anymore, and a lot of
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I don’t know what happened on 9/11, and neither do you. Barring some monumental reshuffling of the world’s power structure, we may never know. But we can say with absolute certainty what didn’t happen on 9/11, and that’s what we’re going to focus on today: the impossible science of 9/11. According to
There are plenty of legitimate reasons why Kamala Harris is unqualified to be President of the United States, but I was taken aback recently by those who disqualify her from leadership because she’s a woman. Even more surprising was that others enthusiastically applauded that assertion. People really believe that women are disqualified
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You’ve probably never heard of Bruce Boynton. It’s arguable that Boynton was more important than Rosa Parks in ending segregation, but his relative obscurity underlies the fact that there were thousands of brave Americans at that time willing to go against the hive mentality of their day. They were scared, isolated, often
Continue readingThe Hive: Applying The Lessons of the Freedom Riders